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Member, SHOT Executive Council, 2012 –– 2014
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Member, HSS Council, 2012 –– 2014
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External Reviewer, Dibner Fellowship, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA, 2012
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External Reviewer, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris, France, 2011—
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Adviser, “Nuclear Portugal,”, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2011
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Advisor: Project and Exhibition 50 ans du CNES , Paris, 2011
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External Reviewer, ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships, and Frederick Burckhardt Residential Fellowships, 2008
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Member and co-chair, HSS Program Committee, Meeting in Fall 2005
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Member HSS Committee on Meetings and Programs (2004-6)
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Member, American Institute of Physics, Advisory Committee on the History of Physics (2004-6)
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Member, Coordination Committee, Tensions of Europe. Technology and the Making of 20thC Europe, a European Science Foundation (Strasbourg, France) Network approved in November 2000 for three years.
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Member of the Committee on International Scholars, Society for the History of Technology (2000-2003).
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Editor, History and Technology, an international journal (1990-2008)
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Series Editor, Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Routledge, UK).
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Advisory Editor, British Journal for the History of Science
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Advisory Editor, Minerva (2000-2003; 2009- present)
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Advisory Editor, Isis (2001-2004)
Fellowship and grant applications reviewed
For the Macarthur and Guggenheim Foundations, the European Science Foundation, the Royal Society (London), the NSF, the NEH
Peer evaluation for promotion and/or tenure as requested by U.S. universities
Cornell, Fordham, Maryland, Michigan, MIT, Ottawa, Princeton, Rensselaer, Yale
International Summer School Teacher and Leader
May, 2003 TITEKO Interdisciplinary Graduate Summer School in History and Sociology of Technology, Helsinki, Finland.
External PhD Examiner
2011 Hervé Moulin, Université Paris III La Sorbonne.
2008 S.W.H. Zaidi, Center for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College, London
2004 S. Turchetti, Center for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester
B. GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
School of History, Technology and Society
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Director of Graduate Studies, 2008 ––
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Member of the Graduate Committee (ongoing)
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Member of ad hoc Committee on Promotion and Tenure (2010-2011)
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Member of the Library Committee (2000-6 )
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Member of the Executive Committee (2001-3, 2008-)
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Chairman of the Magill Visiting Speakers Program Committee (2002-3)
PhD Board
2001 Aristotelis Tympas
2004 Hannes Toivanen
2004 Prakash Kumar
2005 Tim Stoneman
2007 Jahnavi Phalkey
2008 Chris McGahey
2008 Patrick Zander
2010 Fang Zhou
2011 Ashok Maharaj
Ivan Allen College
2011-12 Member of Modern Languages Chair Search Committee (2011-2012)
2011 Leader of initiative to create a new College-wide STS Certificate
2010-11 IAC Reprsentative on Institute P/T Committee
2010-11 IAC Representative on the Institute 3rd Year Critical Review Committee
2010 IAC Represenatative on the Regent’s Professor Selection Committee
2008 Member of ad hoc ethics committee to investigate charges of plagiarsm aginst an IAC faculty member
2007 Program Committee, “Science, Technology and Innovation,” international conference organized by the School of Public Policy.
C. OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS
Consultancies
2008-11 for Profs Michael Riordan, UC Santa Barbara, and Lillian Hoddeson, “The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Supercolllider”
2001 for TPAC (Technology Policy and Assessment Center), School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, as member of a team led by Susan Cozzens, for Forfas, Eire, “Assessment of Irish Participation in Inter-Governmental Research Organizations” (CERN, EMBL, ESO, ESRF).
1994 to the Office of Technology Assessment of the US Congress, Washington DC, on international collaboration in science and technology.
1992 to the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics, New York, on multi-institutional collaborations in space science and geophysics.
1989 to the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics, New York, on multi-institutional collaborations in high-energy physics.
1987 to the Brazilian Minister of Science and Technology, Brasilia, on the desirability of a Brazilian controlled thermonuclear fusion project.
I. GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
A. AS PRINCIPAL AND/OR CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
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NASA/ NASA History Office, “A History of NASA’s International Relations”, with graduate students Angelina Long and Ashok Maharaj ($313,000 for three years).
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NSF Science and Technology Studies Program, Dissertation Improvement Award, Jahnavi Phalkey (for 2005).
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NSF Science and Technology Studies Program, Dissertation Improvement Award, Tim Stoneman (for 2005).
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NSF Grant SES-0326985, ($9804) (co-PI, Kai-Henrik Barth, Georgetown University), “International Workshop on Science, Technology International Affairs”.
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Science, Technology and European Modernity (co-PI, PI Mike Allen), NSF SGTR award ($305,000) – subsequently cancelled by NSF with Allen’s departure from Tech.
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European Space Agency for a history of the European Space Agency (about $1million).
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Various European funding bodies, for the history of CERN from 1965 to 1980 (about $180,000).
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European Commission, DGXII, Brussels, for the history of the European fusion program (about $25,000).
B. AS INVESTIGATOR
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UK Science and Engineering Research Council, for the history of CERN from 1950 to 1965 (about $200,000).
C. OTHER
External
2002 From the Rockefeller Archives, Sleepy Hollow, NY, in the framework of their ‘History of the Cold War Era’ program ($2225)
2000 From AIP Center for the History of Physics, to use the facilities at their Niels Bohr Library, Maryland (DC), (about $1100).
Internal
2011 GTRF Travel funds to attend SHAFR from France ($3000)
2010 European Union Center of Excellence, INTA, for archival research in the U.K. (~$3000)
2010 GTRF, for Archival Research in France, Italy and the U.K ($2450).
2009 GTRF Awards in Fall ($1000) and in Summer ($1000)